Resilient Landscapes for Reimagined Futures: Event and Art Exhibition

Resilient Landscapes for Reimagined Futures: Event and Exhibition

Join us on March 22, 2025, at the East Phillips Community Center for a dynamic afternoon of storytelling and art, exploring visions for a brighter, more equitable climate future. Co-hosted by Change Narrative and (EPNI)— this event marks the culmination of —a year-long project focused on amplifying the original, first person narratives of an elder and youth, highlighting their perspectives on the future of the Roof Depot site.

This event shares cross generational dialogue between the storytellers and invites the broader community to reflect on the question “What does a more vibrant and bright future look like?” The exhibition will include artwork depicting aspects of these stories including powerful connections between the past, present, and future. The project is dedicated to advancing environmental justice and fostering collective visioning for a healthier, more equitable climate future—both within the East Phillips community and beyond.

Date: Saturday, March 22, 2025

Time:

2-3:30 pm Event Program: Storytelling & Conversation

2-4:30 pm Art Exhibition and Viewing

Location: East Phillips Community Center (MultiPurpose Room) - 2307 17th Avenue S, Minneapolis, MN 55404

All Are Welcome! Registration Required (due to limited seating).

This initiative is made possible through the generous support of the Earth Rising Foundation and fiscal sponsorship by Oyate Hotanin. Project components are facilitated by Jothsna Harris of Change Narrative and artist Julie Marckel, in collaboration with the East Phillips Neighborhood Institute.

More about the Resilient Landscapes for Reimagined Futures project—The mainstream environmental movement has historically defined ‘resilient landscapes’ as natural places, rich in biodiversity and ecologically important for conservation efforts. Yet there is a need to think more broadly about what defines a ‘resilient landscape’ and who is included in these spaces. Climate change impacts all landscapes, including rural, urban and suburban, and people’s lives who reside there.

As climate change intensifies, we must be willing to adapt how we define resilient landscapes, and be inclusive of those who have experienced the cumulative impacts of environmental injustice. There is a need to cultivate and amplify sustainable visions, and especially those from voices of frontline communities who are most disproportionately impacted by climate change, but that have been historically excluded from critical climate conversations and decision making.

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